2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in Riverside, CA
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro area
How much does a new roof cost in Riverside, CA?
$13,300 – $24,100
Typical $18,700 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $529 per square (100 sq ft of roof) installed, above the US typical of $500.
How we got this number
An architectural shingle roof in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro costs $427 to $631 per square installed (typical $529) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -4.2% against the California figure of $552 and +5.7% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 54 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $30.42/hour (median $29.83, about 2,480 employed), BLS May 2025. The whole-roof range is for a 2,000 sq ft single-story home (6/12 pitch, one layer torn off, permit and dumpster included). Full methodology.
All materials in Riverside, CA
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $427 | $529 | $631 |
| 3-tab shingles | $298 | $377 | $457 |
| Standing seam metal | $944 | $1,307 | $1,671 |
| Metal panel | $535 | $953 | $1,371 |
| Tile | $744 | $1,897 | $3,050 |
| Slate | $1,035 | $2,080 | $3,124 |
| Flat membrane | $268 | $504 | $740 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA" (area code 40140). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
Housing age. The median home in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro was built in 1987, newer than the median metro in the Index (1982). 36.2% of homes were built before 1980 and 29.4% in 2000 or later; 66% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 14 county hail reports across the metro's 2 counties from 2021 to 2025 (2 in 2021, 1 in 2022, 0 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 4 in 2025), rank 157 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 6 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 1 inches. Most reports came from San Bernardino, California (8), Riverside, California (6). After a hail storm, read the roof insurance claim guide and how hail damages a roof.
Sources: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county hail reports 2021 to June 30, 2026); U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates 2020-2024, tables B25035, B25034 and B25003; counties per OMB July 2023 metro definitions.
Other California metros
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara $605/sq
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont $590/sq
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma $566/sq
- Vallejo $551/sq
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim $549/sq
- Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom $547/sq
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura $541/sq
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad $540/sq
- Modesto $535/sq
- Stockton-Lodi $534/sq
- Salinas $533/sq
- San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles $530/sq
- Santa Cruz-Watsonville $529/sq
- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara $526/sq
- Fresno $525/sq
- Visalia $524/sq
- Redding $518/sq
- Bakersfield-Delano $516/sq
- Chico $516/sq
- Yuba City $512/sq
- Merced $499/sq
Metros with a similar cost
- South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI $530/sq · rank 51
- Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY $530/sq · rank 52
- Jefferson City, MO $527/sq · rank 55
- Janesville-Beloit, WI $527/sq · rank 56
- Manchester-Nashua, NH $526/sq · rank 57
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